Michelle Obama is knitting and considering retiring from public life.
The former first lady said in a new interview with People magazine that she picked up knitting needles to pass the time during the coronavirus pandemic. And now she’s addicted.
“Knitting is an eternal proposition,” she says. “You don’t master knitting, because once you make a scarf, there is the blanket. And after you’ve made the cover, you need to make the hat, the socks.
She’s working on her first round neck sweater for her husband, former President Barack Obama.
“I’m figuring out how to make sleeves and a collar,” she says. “I could continue to knit!”
The former first lady also explains how the pandemic has helped her and her husband recover “stolen moments” with Malia, 22, and Sasha, 19, who both returned from college for quarantine themselves with their parents at family homes in Washington and Martha’s Vineyard. , Massachusetts.
Ms Obama also discusses what she says was the “low grade depression” she suffered during pandemic lockdowns and after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in May, as well as her dropping out of exercises. impact and what she expects from retirement. .
The woman whose polished biceps and workouts went viral during her time as first lady said she learned how to be a better swimmer during her forties “because I find out in my old age that things go wrong. high impact that I was doing didn’t work. Michelle Obama is 57 years old.
Now that Malia and Sasha are independent young adults, Obama said she appreciates the fact that their conversations have become more “peer-oriented than they are mother to daughter.”
“I told my daughters that I am heading into retirement right now,” she said, adding that she was picking her projects and going on with the summer. His new Netflix children’s food show, “Waffles + Mochi,” premieres Tuesday, and the Obama Presidential Center is under construction in Chicago.
“Barack and I never want to go through winter again,” said Obama. “We’re building the groundwork for someone else to keep the work going so that we can retire and be together, and Barack can golf too much, and I can tease him too much about golf because he doesn’t. has nothing else to do.
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